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  1. "It stops them having to ship 32 bit libraries that need constant maintainable"

    I thought the whole purpose of Apple programs was that everything was contained inside a disk image, thus negating the need to have libraries on the OS that need constant maintenance (and can't be easily exploited because they don't exist anywhere but inside the program code and not as a separate file on disk.)

  2. Re:Lawyer on Trump Nominates Lawyer To Lead FBI (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Fucking wrong. From the FBI site:

    "Educational requirements include having a four year bachelor degree from an accredited university or college. In addition to this applicants should have three years of work experience at the minimum."

    No where is a law degree stated as the qualifier. I'm sure they'd prefer a law degree or a degree in "Criminal Justice" but they've got plenty of other degree-holders outside of law handling other things, like Comp. Sci/Engineering degree holders doing digital forensics.

  3. Re:Cause and effect... on Moderate Drinking Can Damage the Brain, Claim Researchers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Take a fat rip off a bong and watch how well it dulls the world for you. Just one hit of some good chron will do it for you.

  4. Compared to Wall Street sitting on a couple hundred trillion in bullshit derivatives?

  5. Ah, nice to see a study validate my saying on Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    "College-educated, still dumb as a box of rocks."

  6. Re:The fact their server is in Russia is why on Kaspersky Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft Over Disabling Its Antivirus Software (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "This means that Kapersky has the unfortunate side effect even though being cheaper unable to automatically update because it's on russian soil thus for us IT folks we've started to Migrate to other software that does auto update without fail and has local servers"

    You must be really fucking new to the IT industry if you don't have a VPN tunnel dedicated specifically for remote updates.

  7. Re:cracklogins@gmail.com is a professional hacking on Apple Announces New 10.5-Inch iPad Pro With Narrower Side Bezels, 120Hz Refresh Rate Display (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    You've GOTTA be a fucking moron. Half of us have already likely been inside your shitty gmail account already. You're advertising to the hacker-minded, here, dumbass.

  8. Re: Fix the hardware on Apple Piles On the Features, and Users Say, 'Enough!' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, lots of them are. They make the suggestion - the companies listen.

  9. Re:Moore's law on IBM Research Alliance Has Figured Out How To Make 5nm Chips (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "What do yall think of their 5nm claim?"

    They just about hit the limits of atomic transistors, if this is true and the feature size they refer to is not the trace but the transistor itself.

    From that, I expect to see at least an IPC improvement of 2 or 3 per thread given the shitty bloated coding everyone does now days, which should put us back on par with how things worked when we were on server-class P3 dies and didn't need these extra bullshit instructions.

  10. Bad Feeling on Supreme Court Agrees To Decide Major Privacy Case On Cellphone Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have the feeling that the USSC will 'narrowly' rule that since the private company gave up the data voluntarily to the police without coercion that no rights were violated. I doubt there's anything in the cellular contract that actually protects the customer, knowing how businesses run these past several decades.

  11. Re:Apple downloads iOS updates without consent. on Apple Piles On the Features, and Users Say, 'Enough!' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Every few days a new iOS update is downloaded without my consent, with no way to disable it"

    Block the shit in your router.
    Turn off your data plan.
    Don't let it connect to other APs.

    In other words, use your phone AS A FUCKING PHONE. That seems to be what you want it to do, anyways. Here, I have a Tracfone for ya.

  12. Re:Fix the hardware on Apple Piles On the Features, and Users Say, 'Enough!' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Bring the hardware up to modern specifications"

    That's a typical answer for those that tend to not program in the most efficient manner possible.

    How about you bring your coding standards up to something better than the modern bloat we have now?

  13. You forgot the never-ending Houston smog that makes the SoCal atmosphere look pristine.

  14. If you're too lazy to look up San Fran streets on Google Earth you simply don't need to even be on the internet.

    The entirety of mankind's knowledge is at your fingertips - if you can't find a fucking citation on your own you don't belong on the internet and should reattach yourself to mommy's teat.

  15. Try reading even the summary first? on 'Instantly Rechargeable' Battery Could Change the Future of Electric Cars (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, come on, all you need to do is read the summary to know that this is a flow battery - you recharge it by pouring an electrolytic fluid into it to replace the worn out electrolytic fluid.

    Recharge speed is essentially as fast as refilling the electrolyte.

  16. Re:"Bricked" - you keep using that word... on Microsoft Accidentally Released Internal Windows 10 Development Builds (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    That you don't know about something as basic as JTAG means you have zero credibility here to talk about anything.

    That's my 29 years of experience (out of almost 35 years of life, now) with computers talking, CHILD.

  17. Not since the condom legislation. Now all the porno companies have moved out into other counties where such regulations do not exist.

  18. Ten? Fuck you're lucky. I get about five at best even on a solid fiber connection.

  19. Easy pickings politically on EU Commissioner Says No to Bill Gates' Robot Tax Idea (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, you don't favor a tax to increase education (which is rather highly-valued in the EU?)

    That's almost guaranteed to be your ass there.

  20. People like me would use the money to work harder, plenty of people would use the money to avoid work if possible.

    But I bet it would balance out. People have this weird tendency to average out some way or another.

  21. I'll turn my UBI into a proper fortune by investing it while sitting outside in my dirthole of an office called a mine digging minerals.

    Won't change how much I'm working right now one bit, it'll just make my operations much more effective and efficient and productive. Can't really automate mining as while the tech exists, nobody knows what's 'essential' for a basic miner, as there are so many varying mine positions that making a machine to handle them all would make it so damned large as to be useless for anything excepting mass quarry operations where they don't give a shit about gangue.

  22. "It's harder to do on welfare, because (at least where I live) you need to show that you've been applying for jobs,"

    "Every company has required me to file my application online through a career site - my resume and profiles are on that site." should be all you need to say in this day and age of "Don't call us, we'll call you" employment.

  23. The mobile Skype app uses so many goddamned resources just rendering the UI that it's a dog-shit slow piece of junk.

    And I still receive messages even though I'm supposed to be signed out and the app cleared from RAM. Stupid.

    Instead of listening to the people actually using it, they're just playing "Catch-Up With The Johnsons."

  24. Most judges are voted into position in the USA, there is very little government accreditation in place excepting the highest court position.

  25. "He just isn't certified as one in Oregon because he has never paid the RICO-RATTLING pay-to-play-fee despite having the inherent jurisprudence to call himself an engineer (and by Federal Law, if you have the right to it, the gov't can't require you to have a license for it.)"

    FTFY.

    "It is a much more complicated case than you let on"

    Not even close. This is a licensing board trying to usurp jurisprudence/jurisdictional authority from the people in an attempt to make money they're not entitled to. It's pretty fucking simple, really, if you knew anything about Federal Law.